Word: obstruct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstartors were symbolically protesting against America's so-called war machine and against Dow, which supplies most of the napalm used in Vietnam. But the protest was irrelevant and inappropriate since a change in Dow's policies will not stop the war or even obstruct the use of napalm. If Dow suddenly refused to manufacture napalm, there are dozens of companies that would vie for the government contract to carry on production...
Base officials tried to obstruct his leafleting, Israel said. "One sergeant ran along behnid me and grabbed the leaflet from people before they could read it." He also claimed they threatened to induct him immediately if he did not stop agitating...
Congress's power to punish utterances that obstruct military recruiting or war activities was upheld in Schenck v. U.S. (1919), when the Supreme Court sustained the World War I Espionage Acts. In Schenck, however, Justice Holmes also declared that such utterances can be punished only if they create a "clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree." Miller and his lawyers insist that burning a draft card endangers no one except the burner. They point out that all the information...
...sure, as TV news cameras moved north with the civil rights riots, their films had another effect. Ironically, television, which had given such a boost to the civil rights movement, began to obstruct it and contribute mightily to the white blacklash. "Take the case of some recent footage on the Atlanta riots," says M.I.T. Political Scientist Harold Isaacs. "What you saw was a black blur of a face...
...practical considerations are more to the point. In an era when the pace of social as well as technological change seems to be accelerating at a geometrical rate, the Congress tends to grind exceeding slow. The hyperactive 89th Congress is atypical; on Capitol Hill it is normally easier to obstruct than to enact. To appreciate how Congress usually functions, we need only go back to the first session of the 88th Congress in 1963. Then the House was wallowing in inaction, ignoring the Administration's advice and paying heed to the since discredited economic myths opposing...